Director Harald Zwart and star Lily Collins mount a successfully thoughtful but dramatically uninspired adaptation of the first book in Cassandra Clare’s series of young-adult novels, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Lily Collins, star of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, talks with Spinoff Online about bringing the bestselling novel to the screen, and what separates her character Clary from other heroines of the genre.

The Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare talks with Spinoff Online about the upcoming adaptation City of Bones and conceiving a series of novels that uniquely explores hero myths from a female perspective.

Speaking with CBR at WonderCon, The Mortal Instruments author Cassandra Clare assured there’s more to Screen Gems’ City of Bones than romance. “There’s a ton of action, there’s a lot of people’s heads getting chopped off,” she said.

I Am Number Four star Alex Pettyfer reportedly is walking away from a multimillion-dollar offer from Screen Gems in favor of the lead role in The Last Apprentice, the Warner Bros. adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s bestselling fantasy series.

A greenlight for director Scott Charles Stewart’s adaptation of the bestselling urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments reportedly hinges on whether actor-model Alex Pettyfer will sign on to star as a tattooed demon hunter.

What’s that, you say? You don’t know how you can live without a Young Adult series of novels being adapted into movies cynically designed to appeal to a teen demographic, and you’re scared about the idea of The Twilight Saga movies ending in a couple of years? Then, perhaps I can interest you in The Mortal Instruments.